Department of Justice Canada
What Department of Justice Canada spent in fiscal year 2024-25: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Justice; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Department of Justice Canada does
Department of Justice Canada provides legal advice to the Government of Canada, supports the administration of the federal justice system, and develops federal justice policy. Its portfolio includes bodies responsible for federal prosecutions, the courts, federal judicial appointments, and administrative tribunals.
Spending, 2024-25
Net spending, 2024-25
$1.35B
spent by Department of Justice Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2024-25
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Department of Justice Canada spend its budget in 2024-25?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2024-25
Personnel
Transfer payments
Professional and special services
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Information
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Repair and maintenance
External revenues
Internal revenues
$1.03B
$718M
$47.3M
$10.8M
$7.8M
$6.7M
$4.5M
$2.9M
$1.8M
$1.3M
$913K
-$1.1M
-$482M
Total: $1.35B.
Spending by program, 2024-25
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.35B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$328M
$230M
$202M
$169M
$65.1M
$61.1M
$50.8M
$43.4M
$37.2M
$30.2M
$29.9M
$22.3M
$21.3M
$13.4M
$10.3M
$9.6M
$9.3M
$7.9M
$7.2M
$2.1M
$1.6M
Workforce, 2024-25
Full-time equivalents
5,654
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$1.03B
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$183K
personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2024-25
The grants, contributions and other transfers Department of Justice Canada paid, program by program: $718M in all, against $718M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions for Criminal Legal AidPayments | Contribution | $212,827,506 |
| Contributions under the Youth Justice Services Funding ProgramPayments | Contribution | $184,972,994 |
| Contributions for Immigration and Refugee Legal AidPayments | Contribution | $100,607,000 |
| Contributions under the Victims FundPayments | Contribution | $39,154,198 |
| Contributions under the Indigenous Justice ProgramPayments | Contribution | $30,076,171 |
| Contributions under the Justice Partnership and Innovation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $26,868,513 |
| Contributions in support of the Canadian Family Justice FundPayments | Contribution | $22,188,904 |
| Contributions under the Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support FundPayments | Contribution | $15,397,610 |
| Contributions under the Indigenous Courtwork ProgramPayments | Contribution | $13,836,898 |
| Contributions under the Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision ProgramPayments | Contribution | $12,289,195 |
| Contributions for Access to Justice Services in the Territories (being Legal Aid, Indigenous Courtwork and Public Legal Education and Information Services)Payments | Contribution | $12,271,010 |
| Contributions under the Drug Treatment Court Funding ProgramPayments | Contribution | $10,131,276 |
| Grants under the Indigenous Partnership FundPayments | Grant | $8,959,600 |
| Grants under the Justice Partnership and Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $6,242,089 |
| Contributions to support the implementation of official languages requirements under the Contraventions ActPayments | Contribution | $6,037,220 |
| 28 programs | $717,631,359 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $442,202 | $3,373,205 | $0 | $4,859,480 | $8,674,886 |
| 2024 | $674,199 | $3,194,784 | $0 | $5,844,446 | $9,713,430 |
| 2023 | $679,988 | $2,655,514 | $0 | $5,867,524 | $9,203,026 |
| 2022 | $469,812 | $2,103,421 | $0 | $4,970,312 | $7,543,545 |
| 2021 | $495,497 | $1,845,836 | $0 | $4,698,414 | $7,039,748 |
| 2020 | $571,594 | $1,805,340 | $0 | $4,002,071 | $6,379,005 |
| 2019 | $965,716 | $2,528,360 | $0 | $6,337,542 | $9,831,618 |
| 2018 | $991,103 | $3,425,419 | $0 | $5,262,167 | $9,678,689 |
| 2017 | $1,181,104 | $3,461,780 | $0 | $4,622,773 | $9,265,657 |
Department of Justice Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Justice
- Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada
- Public Prosecution Service of Canada
- Courts Administration Service
- Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
- Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada
- Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Law Commission of Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2025, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
